Author: nicholas_john_dogan
Saturday, 23 September 2000 - 07:47 pm |        |
Hello all.
You may notice that mine is a new name to the site so I hope you'll all bear with me as I try to find my feet.
A few years ago a Video was released of a documentary type , fronted by Michael Winner nd with Tom Baker's narration. This was a general
backing of the Maybrick Diaries. The point of interest is that a facimilie of a letter was reproduced in the video which I have never seen reproduced
elsewhere (including a keyword search of this site) and could anyone out there shed any light upon this document. The text is as follows:
Dear Boss oct 30th 1888
I am going to commit three more murders - two women and a child
and I shall take their hearts this time.
Yours Truly
Jack the Ripper
p.s. if anyone is still working down Sickert lines out there this handwriting bears a striking similarity to that of Sickert. Noteably the small case letter 'k' in
the artists signature.
Thanks a lot
Nick |
Author: Neil K. MacMillan
Wednesday, 28 March 2001 - 09:18 pm | |
Nick: I'm not that into the letter aspect of JtR yet. I would cautiously say however, that I view that particular letter with trepidation if I were researching the missal with an eye to it being an authentic letter.
I have never seen or heard documentation that Jack the Ripper harmed children or ever made threats of that kind. Secondly, I believe the Maybrick diaries have to be viewed with suspicion. I read the Maybrick diary not terribly long ago and was unconvinced that he was the ripper. I think this missive can rightly be placed in the confession for attention file. Kindest reguards, Neil |
Author: Tom Wescott
Thursday, 29 March 2001 - 12:15 am | |
Hello,
This letter sounds like bunk. Although, I should point out that the Zodiac killer, for effect, threatened to blow the tires on a busload of kids and then pick them off with a gun as they came out of the bus. Of course, he had no intention of doing this, but it got the reaction he'd hoped for and built his ego tremendously, there's no doubt. However, I still say this letter is bunk and I'm one of the few people who still give any of the Ripper letters any credence!
Yours truly,
Tom Wescott |
Author: Christopher T George
Thursday, 29 March 2001 - 12:41 pm | |
Hi, Nick:
There were hundreds of letters in all different styles of handwriting that made claims of plans to do further murders in various places and in various numbers. There is no reason to think the letter you have cited is any more genuine than the others which certainly were almost all hoaxes. The other thing to be said is that the longhand "k" written in the style of the period was widespread and not just confined to J. K. Stephen.
Where does the term "Maybrick diaries" originate that I keep hearing???? There is only one Maybrick diary, and it is the one that has blighted the field of Ripper studies for nearly a decade.
Chris George |
Author: Martin Fido
Wednesday, 04 April 2001 - 09:42 pm | |
Forthcoming and not to be missed is Stewart Evans' and Keith Skinner's 'Letters from Hell': complete transcriptions with many facsimiles and a brilliant commentary - (I know: I've read it!) - on all the letters on the Ripper files of the Metropolitan and City Police.
Sadly, Nicholas, I think you'll find that the large number of similar pseudo-'confessions' and sinister prognostications will force you to agree that the 'two women and a child' letter was just another nasty hoax.
Martin Fido |
